'Attack and invasion are two different things.'
Pretty hard to put on an invasion without an attack, Neo ... and they do have a way of stimulating attacks in reaction .... the association looks pretty valid to me
'the dispute is over who started it'
As far as we know, it was the canaanites, they had the poor judgment to be occupying the land prior to the first invasion of which we have information ... could be more relevant to ask, who is intensifying it now, keeping it going for the last dozen or so decades .... who's got who walled up behind fences, who's rolling armoured D9s over whose houses, who's got the biggest stock of WMDs, details like this
'and who committed greater atrocities.'
By body count? ... by weight of explosives used? .... number of bullets? ... what?
'Arab population settled in Palestine rather late in the game.'
This can be taken as semantics built around a change in shelter and movement styles, combined with an arbitrary and self-serving definition of lateness .... yes arabs were tending to make a higher proportion of buildings from more lasting materials, and better constructed than before, but people all over the planet were doing that, it was a time of great change in those sorts of things .... the economics of construction with stone changed in relative values during the 1800s, this did not give the liechtensteiners the right to take land from the finns, either early or 'late' in the period
One argument only makes work for you the whole 'let's take their land and pretend they never existed' line - might makes right .... and it will only work for you until demographics and/or Dame Fortune throw a wrench into its gears ... better to face reality of the facts, the living breathing facts behind that barbed wire
..... much later .... cheers |
